No matter what you do or where you go, there is one watch out there which will complete you and will accompany you wherever you go. You get the feeling of completeness with this one. We search relentlessly for this piece and we find ourselves swamped with a lot of choices. We may end up with the watch we want…or not. With the recent recession, we just need the perfect one in two aspects: physically and financially.
Here is a list of brands which have good reputation for quality and nice, agreeable price tags. With such brands, even if you’re a little cash-strapped, you can get yourself a good-looking watch without having the stress. It’s almost like you’re getting a discount already. Who says you need cheap mens watches all the time?
Swatch
Swatch is known more than just a funky watch. Actually, the directors of Swatch realized during its introduction in the timekeeping industry that presenting to the people a nice working watch was not enough. All of them believed that the watch ought to be nice looking, exciting, bold, reasonably priced, well-designed and created with top quality materials. Swatch watches were known to be high tech and of course, funky.
Casio
Casio is a Japanese electronics company, founded in 1946 in Tokyo, Japan. They were known to produce the best compact calculators since 1957.
Casio, a leading Japanese name, carried the usual Japanese legacy. Cheap materials mixed with wonderful features. The Japanese have always been technological geniuses and Casio came into the watch-wearing world offering big wrist watches of outstanding quality.
In 2007, Casio released “Oceanus Manta”, the world’s thinnest chronograph watch which was solar-powered. Beat that? Let Casio do it.
Seiko
Seiko, like Casio, is a Japanese company. On the other hand, as compared with Casio which deals with general electronics, Seiko is watch company.
Seiko started out as a jewelry and watch shop named K. Hattori in Ginza, Tokyo in 1881. They started producing clocks with the brand name Seikosha in 1892. The word Seiko really means ‘success’, ‘exquisite’ and ‘minute’ in the Japanese language. Perfect word to name a watch company, isn’t it? So Seiko it was.
Timex
This brand has a rather interesting history. Timex is a US brand, with its headquarters in Connecticut. In 1854, it began making clocks and watches under the name Waterbury Clock. They were even tagged as the Switzerland of America. Waterbury Watch is a subsidiary company that sold the first affordable pocket watch in 1880. It was during the World War 1 when they began creating a lot of wristwatches because of the popular demand. Walt Disney gave them a break when they agreed that Waterbury Watch will make the first Mickey Mouse clock in1933, which was a big hit among children.
Came 1970s, cheap mechanical watches produced by Japan and other Far Eastern nations challenged Timex. Asian manufacturers began producing watches of cheaper material, albeit as reliable. Nevertheless Timex also did well in the local arena and they decided to market their timepieces as a line of economic yet well-performing fashion watches.
